Fanciful and FABULOUS!!! I LOVE this!! If you want to show it off anywhere else, my Winter Wonderland party is open just one more day! I’ll be having a huge Christmas parade and I feature great projects like this on my facebook page, too. Either way, this is So Sweet and I hope you have a very happy holiday!!<3 Christina

I love these and tried to make them but can’t get them to stay together. I used a high temperature glue gun (Martha Stewart). I’m an inexperienced crafter so maybe don’t have my gluing techniques up to par. Any hints? I want to make another one. The one I made has a couple of pieces of scotch tape to hold the pieces that keep separating. Tacky!

You clever lady, these are lovely! I’d be interested to hear your ideas about the glue issues that some other people have commented on. Do you need to leave them to “set” before moving them, glue gun is usually pretty instant isn’t it.
I’m wondering if there is anyway to stick them with sugar syrup and make them still edible? Maybe not, just a thought, be good to know if anyone tries it.

Julie,
I used a low temperature glue gun and had no issues with them falling apart. I kept them in the freezer after Christmas and was able to use them for three years! I doubt that a sugar syrup would be strong enough to hold them together.

Michele – Did you take the wrappers off the candy canes? My mom and I had the exact same trouble over Thanksgiving when we made some and I suspect it was because the wrappers were left on and were slippery. My husband put some epoxy on mine which ended up working.

These are so cute – unfortunately we made several for our preschool tree and…they fell apart SOOOO easily!!! We followed instructions and used the hot glue gun, but they were a HUGE disappointment! Any tips to keeping them together – the hot glue simply did not hold them together well at all….

The ones I made this year didn’t hold together well, either. I ended up having to use epoxy and they still weren’t stable. Were yours wrapped or unwrapped? Mine were wrapped and I wonder if that wasn’t the problem.

I made one and it came out beautiful though I could see I would need to reglue a few pieces. However after I sprayed it the whole thing just fell apart, became sort of soft. What am I missing? Does the brand of sealant make a difference? I want to make more as picture frame but fear the same fate.

Mine also were ruined with the sealant. The stripes ran and the candy never dried. It was sticky and soft. They were so cute and relatively sturdy when I made them. But I used modge podge and a spray sealant and both were unsatisfactory. I am going to try different candy canes today. I think maybe mine were too porous. Heading to Walmart.

I tried with the Walmart Candy Canes and the CVS Star Brite mints and did NOT have the gooey, color run after I applied the sealant. Apparently, some candy canes and some mints are too porous and absorb the sealant leaving a mess.

I unwrapped mine like it said but I didn’t stack them. I made the 5 hearts then shaped into a star. I used the glue gun and mine fell apart after letting them sit for several hours. Someone told me to leave the wrappers on but won’t the hot glue melt the wrapper.

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